Maria Sofia la Roja

Name Options

...a melting pot of Spanish, Africans, Italians, Germans, Irish and converted Jews, who integrated almost immediately with the indigenous tribes

Spanish

Isabet	Ysabet
Sofia (It)
de Rosales	de Rojas	la Roja

• Isabet Sofia la Roja - Catalan <given> + <given> + <byname> pattern; double given name also late Castillian (SENA App A)
• Isabet Sofia de Rojas
• Isabet Sofia de Rosales
• Sofia la Roja de la Florida
• Maria Sofia de ? (Maria super common in the La Florida church records)

From http://laflorida.org/people/

• Juan de Rojas, - - -, - - - , soldier (1578)
• Antonio de Rojas, Palencia, Spain, harquebusier (1566)
• Juan Rojo, - - -, - - -, store keeper (1566)

Luxembourgish

West Frankonian Middle High German...

Baden-Wurtemberg

Swabian German, dialect of Alemannic German in the High German division aka "Western Upper German"

Persona Options

Per https://ufdc.ufl.edu/USACH00588/00001 (Abstracts of the Colonial Parish Records of St. Augustine, Florida) and https://slavesocieties.org/index.php/node/592481 (Digitized original Diocesan Records)

• These records make it clear that wives usually did not have the same names as their husbands.

Per http://laflorida.org/people/

Only 27 women are listed, they include:

• Juana de Morales - - - - - -, see apothecary below
• Leonor de Morales - - - - - -, see apothecary below
• Maria Pelaez, - - -, - - -, daughter or niece of Pedro de Alavarado, see physicians below
• Anita Pelaez, St. Augustine, United States, b. 1567
• Maria Ruiz - - - - - -, see surgeons/physicians below "she left Spain as a single woman"

Scribe:

24 Men (with some possible duplicates) listed as "scribes" including non-Spanish-looking

• Sebastian de Acorda, - - -, - - - , Andres Borset, - - -, - - -, Andres Brocet, - - -, - - - , Juan del Busto, - - -, - - -, Beltran Casier - - - - - -, Daniel Johansen, - - -, - - -, Cornelis Quidre, Bruges, Belgium

Apothecary

1 apothecary - Tomas de Morales, Bobadilla, Spain

Physician & Surgeons

4 physicians - all Spanish

• Pedro de Alvarado, Villoria, Spain
• Not found Gamarra, Bilbao, Spain (also surgeon)
• Francisco Pelaez, Seville, Spain (also surgeon)
• Lorenzo Ruíz de Godoy, Zalamea de la Serena, Spain (also surgeon)

4 surgeons:

• Not found Gamarra, Bilbao, Spain (also physician)
• Simon Lobato, - - -, - - -
• Francisco Pelaez, Villasandino, Spain (also physician)
• Lorenzo Ruíz de Godoy, Zalamea de la Serena, Spain (also physician)

Interpretor

None listed for the 16th century

Literate Germanic, English, French

8 men listed, some duplicates, some mariners who wouldn't have settled

• Melis Enriquez, Arnemuiden, Netherlands, shipmaster, In August, 1566, just months after reaching Florida, several mariners aboard Enríquez’s vessel fell ill. The contagion spread and on September 19, 1566, Melis Enriquez died aboard his ship, anchored just off St. Augustine’s shores.
• Jacome Escuyt, Flanders, Belgium
• Cornelis Quidre, Bruges, Belgium, scribe, aka Cornelis Quinder , Cornieles Esquinder

Luxembourg or German

• Juan Drique, Olingen, Luxembourg, artilleryman (1566)
• Bernar Janse, Bremen, Germany, ?
• Bernart Janse, Bremen, Germany, boatswain's helper (1566), b. 1535, d. 8/27/1566
• Juan de Ocaña, Lower Saxony, Germany (1565)
• Bartolome de Solis Proque, Espinuco, Germany, (1566) b. 1535
• Giraldo Verden, Verden, Germany, mariner (1566)

Clothing

16th Century German:

During the 16th century the style of women’s clothing changed dramatically from the relatively unstructured gowns of the Housebook Master to the very tailored structured Spanish influenced styles of the 1570’s. There are some consistencies throughout the century however:

• Front closing bodices
• Soft curves over the bust indicating that the bust was supported but not flattened as in Spanish, French and English styles. No gratuitous displays of cleavage however.
• High-necked smocks, with and without ruffs/ruffles
• Flat waistlines (the extreme pointed styles of Spanish, English and French fashion were picked up in the very late 1590’s and only by the upper class).
• Sewn in sleeves
• Bodice and gown are sewn together
• Aprons
• Covered hair. Women always wore something on their heads. Towards the middle of the century barrets and hats began to be adopted by women. Only girls went bareheaded or with a pearled headband on, grown women never did.

https://www.curiousfrau.com/2009/04/02/introduction-to-16th-century-german-costuming/

Typical layers, from the skin out

• Smock, made of linen
• Corset or bodice (only for highest classes and pretty late in the century, otherwise stiffened kirtles per Tudor Tailor)
• Petticoat, could be several
• Dress (kirtle vs. gown)
• Gollar, shoulder cape (vs. doublet, jacket)
• Apron (black or white)
• Head covering (linen haube, black cap/barret)
• Stockings

https://www.curiousfrau.com/2009/04/02/introduction-to-16th-century-german-costuming/

Artists/Sources:

• Nicolas Neufchatel
• Lorenz Strauch
• 1600 Ensemble de gravures de costumes c'Allemagne du XVIe siecle, some images specifically labeled as 1577 - https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6937395c?rk=150215;2
  • Alsatian - views 7-8
  • Argentoratensis - views 9-11
  • Cologne - views 12-16
  • Acquagranensis [sic] - view 18 (16?)
  • Westphalia - view 17 (18?)
  • Saxonia - view 19
  • Heldeberg [sig] - view 20
  • Palatinate - view 21
  • Frankfurt - views 22-23
  • Nuremberg - views 24-26
  • Frankonia Orientalis - 27
  • Nuremberg - 28-42
  • Swabian - views 43-50 (Svevica or Sueuia)
  • Tyrol - 51
  • Lipsens - 52-53
  • Misnensis - 54-55